Autism and Mental Health Resources

This resource from Leeds Mind talks about how to set a boundary, as well as keeping them in place for relationships with friends and family.

This handout from Leeds Mind lists ways to recognise when boundaries have been crossed and how you could react when that happens.

This infographic, made by the Mental Health Equity Project, has tips on how to have good sleep hygiene, including using apps and maintaining your bedroom.

Made for one of our Mental Health Peer Support Groups, this guide lists the different types of loss and grief and what they can mean for you.

This infographic talks about disclosing your autism diagnosis, as well as summarising disclosure and how it can affect your wellbeing.

This guide talks about disclosing your autism diagnosis, as well as the different ways of doing so and how it can affect your wellbeing.

In this guide, there is useful information about different types of conflicts and ways to help manage and resolve them.

This infographic has some useful tips from autistic people about meeting sensory needs and supporting mental health.

This resource has plenty of info about how the sensory needs of autistic people and mental health are sometimes connected to each other.

This infographic made by our team has some useful info and pointers on anxiety and mental health, including links to relevant resources.

This resource has information on a number of ways to manage anxiety, including sensory techniques, being expressive, structure and routine.

This infographic details what masking is and some of the ways it can impact on the mental health of some autistic people.

Made by our team, this guide goes into detail about the impact of masking. It also has tips on how to ‘unmask’.

Our team’s guide talks about the importance of sleep to mental wellbeing and how it affects autistic people.

This guide talks about autistic burnout, why it happens and what it means for someone experiencing it.

This infographic has a few tips for wellbeing during winter, including ones on weather, stresses and gatherings.

This guide included a wide range of tips on staying well during those cold winter months.

This infographic has some useful tips and info about workplace stress experienced by autistic adults.

This guide has useful tips and helpful information on being stressed at work and how it impacts on mental health.

This infographic summarises five areas that explain some challenges relating to mental health for autistic parents.

In this free guide, we look at some of the areas where the mental health of autistic parents can be affected.

This infographic has some key points about exercise and its’ impact on autistic people’s mental health.

In this guide, we talk about the experience of some autistic people when exercising, as well as including some useful tips.

In this guide, we talk about how the mental health of autistic adults can be affected by doing arts and crafts.

In this guide, we talk about what boundaries are and how they affect autistic adults in different ways.

This guide looks at meltdowns and shutdowns, their causes and what their impact is on mental health.